My husband is an NRA Training Couselor, so he teaches instructor workshops to teach people who want to become an NRA Certified Instructor. It’s a two day class, and it includes range time. Since I’m a Range Safety Officer, he usually asks me if I can come and keep an eye on his students on the range. Last week he had a class, and I asked him if he wanted my help. He said sure, he then told me that one of his students is a Corner Shot instructor, I said I’ll definitely be there!
What is the Corner Shot? It is an amazing rifle developed in Israel that allows a shooter to be safely behind a barrier and engage your target without putting the shooter in the line of fire. I say rifle, but it’s not exactly a rifle. It’s really in a category of its own. It’s a device that holds a Glock 17 and a camera on the front and a small monitor near the rear. The front pivots left or right. Instead of looking down iron sights or optics, you look at the monitor, which is surprisingly accurate.
It was a once in a lifetime experience to shoot this firearm that is only used by military and law enforcement. It was very awkward at first, because when the Corner Shot is angled and you fire it, the recoil is not up and to the rear. It’s up and to the side, so it torques you a little bit. But it makes up for the strange recoil in the fact that you’re only technically shooting a 40 cal Glock pistol, so it has very little recoil. After firing a few rounds, it became very front heavy. The device itself is not that heavy, but then add the Glock 17 with a high-capacity magazine to the front, and that’s where most of the weight is. A traditional rifle is weighted so most of the weight in over your hands, so it’s balanced very well. The Corner Shot isn’t balanced well, mainly because it’s function over comfort. Which is fine, because if I was going into battle, I would definitely want this firearm so that I don’t have to be in the line of fire!